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Russian forces have grown by 100,000 troops along an expanding eastern front, prompting Ukrainian military planners to overhaul their force structure strategy.
The Russian Navy does not plan to return to Crimea since Ukrainian strikes on the fleet and other assets in the occupied peninsula have made harboring there dangerous, according to Ukrainian Naval spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk.